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...apostolic expansiveness: "Our national birth was the beginning of a new history. . .which separates us from the past and connects us with the future only." Americans have always carried their highly idealized beginning with them like a marmoreal totem. They invented themselves. That invention became their legitimizing idea, the germ of their justification...
...report on germ research...
DIED. Teddy DeVita, 17, whose struggle to conquer a rare bone marrow disease in an 8-ft. by 9-ft., germ-free isolation room at the National Cancer Institute won him wide attention as the courageous "boy in the glass cage"; of complications from repeated blood transfusions; in Bethesda, Md. Teddy was nine when he developed aplastic anemia, which destroys the body's ability to fight off any infection. His life in his sterile sanctuary, portrayed by John Travolta in a 1976 TV film, was poignant: he sometimes threatened to walk out to virtually certain death, but mostly...
...company turns out more than 250,000 of these beasts annually. They are especially useful in cancer research because they will not reject a tumor transplant like other laboratory animals. Unfortunately, they will not reject any other diseases either, and so they must be raised in a totally germ-free environment; researchers have to scrub down and wear face masks before entering the breeding lab. Because the care is expensive, the bare rodent sells for $12, vs. 70? for Charles River's regular furry off-the-shelf mouse...
...damning. But even here, he insists on a scorched-earth policy. The fumbling, revisionist introduction to Hellman's Scoundrel Time, by Garry Wills, "has unconsciously reconstructed the Kremlin's propaganda line. The only omission is the failure to charge the U.S. with the guilt of conducting germ war are in North Korea." Disingenuousness requires analysis, not overkill...